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t-baba · 4 years

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Why We Moved a 20-Year-Old Site to Gatsby

We knew we had a problem.

In 2019, SitePoint was getting Lighthouse Speed scores under 10 on mobile, and between 20 and 30 on desktop.

Our efforts to control UX bloat were failing in the wake of a publishing business environment that sprang new leaks just as we’d finished temporarily plugging the last one. Our reliance on advertising, controlled by external parties, was a major obstacle to improved site performance. Our traffic growth had turned into decline.

On a site that provided people with a place to come and learn to code with best practices, this was not a good look. And it wasn’t a site we could feel proud of, either.

To make matters worse, operational bottlenecks had arisen that made adaptation a tricky logistical business. Our team was struggling to make changes to the site: having focused on our Premium experience for several years, we were down to one developer with WordPress and PHP experience. To test out code changes, the team would have to wait in a queue to access our staging server.

It wasn’t energizing work for anyone, and it certainly wasn’t efficient.

It was time to make some changes, and we set out to look for a solution. After a lot of research, we decided that Gatsby would be a great fit for our team. It would play to our talent strengths, help us solve all of the issues we had identified, and allow us to keep using WordPress for the backend so the editorial process wouldn’t need to change.

Why We Moved to Gatsby

[caption id="attachment_176594" align="aligncenter" width="1522"] The end result.[/caption]

Early in the research process, Gatsby started to look like a serious frontrunner. SitePoint isn’t a small site, so we knew that the tech we chose had to be able to handle some pretty intense demands. Gatsby checked all of our boxes:

We could code everything in React, a tech that every member of the front-end team knows and uses daily.

Gatsby is super fast at its core — performance was at the heart of this project, and we could start from a good footing.

The entire site is rendered as static, which would be great for SEO.

We could build it as a new project, which meant no worrying about the existing codebase, which brought a huge amount of legacy code with it.

We could use Gatsby Cloud, allowing the team to get feedback on the build at any time just by pushing the branch to GitHub.

DDoS attacks on WordPress wouldn’t cause us issues, as the front-end is completely stand-alone.

More Maintainable CSS with styled-components

Since we were going to rebuild the site from scratch, we planned to make some design changes at the same time. To help with this work we decided to use styled-components.

styled-components keeps the site’s styling easy to maintain, and we know where to look when we want to change the style of something — the style is always with the component.

How We Made the Build Happen

We started by following Gatsby’s basic docs and pulling in our posts with the gatsby-source-wordpress plugin.

This was a big initial test for us: we had to see if it was even possible to use Gatsby for our site.

After 20 years of blogging, we have over 17,000 posts published. We knew the builds would take a long time, but we had to find out if Gatsby could deal with such a massive amount of content. As you’ve probably figured, the test delivered good news: Gatsby works.

A quick tip for other teams working with large sites: to make development a better experience, we used environment vars to prevent Gatsby from fetching all of the site’s posts in development. There’s nothing quite like a 60 minute hot reload to slow progress.

if (hasNextPage && process.env.NODE_ENV != "development") { return fetchPosts({ first: 100, after: endCursor }); }

From this point, we ran into some limitations with the WordPress source plugin. We couldn’t get all the data we needed, so we moved to the WordPress GraphQL plugin.

We use Yoast to set our metadata for SEO, and had to ensure we were pulling in the correct information. We were able to do this with WordPress GraphQL. By doing it this way, the content team could still edit metadata the same way, and the data would still be dynamic and fetched on each build.

During the build, we would have three or four people in the team working on parts of the new blog. In the past, if they wanted to get feedback they’d have to push to our staging server and make sure nobody was already using it.

We found that Gatsby Cloud was a great solution to this issue. Now when someone pushes to a branch in GitHub, it creates a build in Gatsby Cloud along with a preview link. Our developers could share this link and get immediate testing and feedback much more effectively than before.

This faster feedback cycle made it easy to have multiple people on the team working on the build and put an end to a major bottleneck.

Launch Day Fun

On the big day, we launched the new site and ran through our initial tests. The new blog was flying — every page load felt instant.

We ran into some problems on SitePoint Premium, which started running into slows and even crashes. The culprit was a new element on blog pages that pulled in the popular books people were currently reading. It would do this via a client-side API call, and it was too much for Premium to handle due to the amount of traffic we get on the blog side.

We quickly added some page caching to the API to temporarily solve the issues. We realized we were doing this wrong — we should have been sourcing this data at build time, so that the popular books are already loaded when we serve the page to the user.

This is the main mindset shift you need to make when using Gatsby: any data that you can get at build time should be fetched at build time. You should only use client-side API calls when you need live data.

Once we’d re-written the API call to happen during the build, the first load of a blog page was even quicker — and Premium stopped crashing.

What We Still Need to Solve

While it’s hard to overstate how much better our on-site experience is today, there are still a few pain points we need to solve.

If a new article is published, or if content is updated — as it is multiple times per day — we need to re-run the Gatsby build before these changes show up.

Our solution for that right now is a simple cron job that runs at pre-scheduled times over the course of a day. The long-term solution to this is to add a webhook to the WordPress publish and update button, so that a new build is triggered once pressed.

We also need to get incremental builds running. Right now, the entire site needs to be rebuilt each time, and given our content archive, this can take a while. Gatsby just introduced incremental builds as we went live, and we’re working on implementing this on our site. Once that’s set up our builds will be much faster if the only thing that has changed is content.

Our speed score is still not where we want it to be. While the site feels subjectively very fast, we are still not getting consistent scores in Lighthouse. We want to get both mobile and desktop into the green zone (scores of 90+) for optimal user experience and SEO.

Would We Do It Again?

A launch of this type would normally be a pretty nerve-wracking event, and take a lot of work from the team on launch day.

With Gatsby, our launch was really easy. We just had to move WordPress onto a new domain, and point sitepoint.com at the Gatsby version of the site.

Then we sat back and watched the numbers to see what happened to our traffic. Within a few days, the data was starting to come in and we were seeing a 15% increase in traffic. User engagement metrics were up across the board. And we hadn’t even removed our ads yet (which, you may have noticed, we’ve since done).

It’s not hard to figure out why the effects were so immediate. We had better SEO running on static HTML and CSS pages, and massive speed improvements made possibly by the move to Gatsby.

Since we made the move, we’ve increased our Lighthouse speed scores from 6-15 on mobile to the 50-60 range, and from the 30s on desktop into the 70s. We wanted to ensure speed remained top of mind with this change, so we’re using a great tool called Calibre that runs speed tests over a number of top pages each day and alerts us to the scores. We are using this tool to continue to improve our score, so I hope to have another article for you in three months when we get everything to stay in the 90+ range.

The team loves working in Gatsby. The blog codebase was something that nobody wanted to work on. Now, everyone wants to take those cards thanks to the great developer experience.

If you’ve been eyeing a move to Gatsby and wondering if it’s ready for prime time, take our advice — it’s worth the switch.

Continue reading Why We Moved a 20-Year-Old Site to Gatsby on SitePoint.

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suzanneshannon · 5 years

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Everything and Nothing

I've been thinking about the question for a solid month now. What about building websites has you interested this year? The question pervaded my solitary thoughts and played in the background during my conversations. I’d love to just tell you the answer I’ve come to, but the more interesting part was my thought journey in getting there.

I jumped at the opportunity to write up my thoughts on this because in general, I am delighted to dive into a conversation about anything that gets me excited. Writing, though, is heavy with irony in my life. There are so many exciting things that I'd love to write about, but I never get asked to write about them. That is of course, until I do, and my mind goes blank.

Even when I properly sat down, cleared my desk, and got out a fresh notebook out to brainstorm and reflect... I still couldn't really come up with an answer. It worried me.

I thought that maybe my answer would be too meta. Or maybe I couldn't really notice the thing I’m interested in the most because it's already seamlessly integrated into my workflow? Nonetheless, I started by collecting thoughts by way of the insta-question-answer technique, where you rapid-fire ask yourself a bunch of questions and say the first thing that comes to mind. This is a great technique when you want to get a quick, reasonably honest answer about something. If you can go fast enough, your brain's first answer is fairly genuine and generally, the one you have, consciously or subconsciously, spent time thinking about. You also have to place an injunction on your rational brain's inherent desire to veto your real answers (what if someone sees!) and replace them with more polished ones.

Let's Play: This Year's Favorites

What's your favorite song from this year? Old Town Road. I want more black cowboys wearing yellow to exist. I didn't realize how much I wanted that to exist until I saw that performance.

What movie did you like the most? Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Obviously, even though that little girl should have died like 20 times. I know I probably should have said Avengers End Game because that movie was everything but it's Godzilla. King of the Monsters. So he has to win.

Favorite tech upgrade? Automating my lights. I was a little behind the curve on this one but it's been great.

Mobile App? Kami 2. Super fun to play.

What about building websites has interested you this year? Um...

My brain shut down. There was no answer, only silence.

I thought of the answers I should want to say. That the increased focus on accessibility is encouraging. That the new edition of Ember feels pretty nice once you get over not having magic anymore. That design systems done right, paired with a framework done right, is pure productivity bliss.

Truth is, I probably could have made any of those answers work, and no one would be the wiser. After all, they are satisfying answers. Deeply satisfying. Years of passion, patience, and persistence is yielding the fruits of our labor. But none of these answers set isInteresting to true for me. So I kept thinking. Surely the answer would come to me if I let it hang around in my sub-conscious a little more.

A week came and went, but there was still nothing.

I started to become a little anxious. What did it mean? Was I burnt out? Was I just not interested in building websites anymore? Have I lost the spark? Maybe I was just not talented enough to write an article like this? Did I say "yes" to the wrong thing? As tempting as it was to crawl into bed under my covers and continue this downward spiral into the endless black hole "what does it all mean", I decided to make a strong cup of tea and lean on the skills I have developed over the last 20 plus years of building for the web.

Problem Solving Skills

We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

This quote is from a prominent Zen Buddhist and one that I reach for when I get stuck inside myself. I remind myself that I already know the answer, I just need to use the tools I have to bring it out and let it shine. I needed to trust the process that has worked time and time again for me: slow up, write everything down, and just ship it.

Part 1) Slow Up

I had become so engrossed in the every-day mundane I was missing the inspiration. It's easy to get bogged down in lines of code, JIRA tickets, and quarterly goals, all the while explaining ad nauseum that developers should reach for semantic HTML first. I recognize the signs now and knew what I needed to do. I needed to slow down to get faster. Sounds counter-intuitive, right? But it’s the same in software engineering: slow is fast. We have proven, time and time again, that when we rush solutions we incur technical debt that we are unlikely to ever repay.

So I took some time to catch my breath and feed my creativity.

I read a book. I watched an interview with an author. I learned from a video series about a standup comedian talking about their process in creating. I sat still and listened to some cello music.

Part 2) Write Everything Down

The next part of my process is to write things down. When creative inspiration is missing, I turn to functional discipline. I have learned that they are the yin and yang of my creative process as a whole. So, I started to make lists. I listed all of the things I have shipped so far this year. I listed all of the conferences where I gave talks and the conferences where I wanted to give talks but didn't. I wrote down the things that gave me confidence this past year and the things that made me feel like an imposter. I looked at my goals from the start of the year and made a list of the things I'd done for each goal.

Then I started writing a little more, this time in paragraphs. I transcribed one of my talks and took notes on where I would do better next time. I write a review of one of my annual goals and thought a bit more deeply about what motivates and inspires me.

Part 3) Just Ship It

Then it came to me. I knew the answer.

It was nothing, but it was everything.

Nothing specifically about building websites has specifically interested me this year - but I'm still as interested as ever in building them. The answer to "what about building websites has interested you this year" is simply a resounding "Yes".

Yes, because I still love thinking about design, components, and the perfect information architecture. Yes, because as much as I swear at my code, I keep coming back to it, keep finding new things to love about it, keep feeling energized when that idea just clicks and something great happens. Yes, because despite doing this for 22 years, I still want to get up and do it again tomorrow.

And that’s when I knew that I could just ship it.

The tech of today, the tech of tomorrow

We are at a specific time and place in tech. Those of us who are building for the web have become more aware of how the tech we create effects those around us. We are starting to accept our responsibility for the lines of code that we write, and see that we cannot merely pass the buck to our supervisors and bosses to make ethical decisions. We are demanding more of ourselves, demanding more from the code we write and the systems we use, demanding more from the giants of technology who seek to abdicate responsibility for how their tech is used.

At the same time, we are figuring out how to climb the proverbial mountain together, while recapturing the fun we had back in the days we called ourselves "webmasters". We are learning to be kinder to ourselves and others. We are figuring out how to make creating for the web easier to learn and to do and we are breaking down the walls that kept far too many people out for too long.

I was watching my son while he was absorbed in lightsaber battles in virtual reality and thinking about how his childhood is so different than mine. The tech I had back then isn’t anything near the tech I have today, and the tech he has today won’t be the tech he has as an adult. What do I imagine that will look like? Even bigger than that, what do I want to help bring into existence?

The truth is, it's all interesting to me. All of it. I can't wait to see we do next and I’m so here for it.

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god-and-janjo · 7 years

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I Wanna Be a Web Designer · A Day In The Life Of A Web Designer

We use the web more than ever these days, whether we're playing games, downloading apps or buying clothes. But somewhere, someone sat down and actually created that website. That's like Facebook, Amazon, even apps like Instagram and snapchat all started with one person sitting at a computer. Now you don't need to be a computer genius to know there are a lot of websites out there and people get paid to make them. Today we've come to see Bernie from Alyka to find out what it takes to be a web designer. How are you? Good mate. Look I want to find out what it's like to be a web designer. Alright, come on in. Alright Jesse, what do you want to know? Well mate, I want to learn a bit more about your job starting with what does a typical day look like? Typically what I do is run catch up with clients, workout what the upcoming requirements they want their website and the first point is doing a wire frame of how everything fits together so that i know exactly what elements they want on their website. From there running Photoshop and to the actually design and then yeah we go through the motions of making sure it's all been approved back and forth until they like it and from there we build the website. And so why did you want to be a web designer? Far out, like I started like 15 years ago man, i used to design websites for for gaming companies, that's my passionate and we wanted a place where all my mates can all come in and discuss about how we kicked each other's arses in games so that's how it started. I mean you got into it when you were 15 but if you're a bit older can you still get into the industry? Absolutely, this industry you don't have any expired date. One of the guys one of our colleagues is like 50 plus. He's the UX designer, user interface designer and user experience. That's the best part. With that age group you have better attention to detail, you've got the experience, it's ticking all the boxes right now, so i would say any age group it's not a problem. I mean is there much work out there for a web designer at the moment? Every business needs a website it's the main medium to get your message across to people these days. Definitely a lot of careers and opportunities out there for websites. These days we don't just do the website, we make sure it looks great for mobiles, with tablets it becomes more interactive you do more cool stuff so it was exciting. So Bernard what's the hardest part of the job? Probably the hardest part is like pleasing all clients. Some clients might want some designs a specific way even though they hired me to design it for them? And so what's the most rewarding part of the job like what brings you to work every day? The fact that like every client or every new design is different you know? You get different industries, you wouldn't get the same more boring big industry like the painting websites for example, you're gonna get an entertainment website based, you can get a lifestyle website based website you get a celebrity now and then as well it's pretty fun. And so it would what piece of advice would you give someone wanting to move into your field? I think the best way right, to move into the web design space, is to our create somehow the online portfolio, showcase a couple of your best work, not too much, a couple of your best work, showcase nice little animation tricks, demonstrate a bit of search engine optimization as well and a bit of forms, online marketing and that's the best way that that person can get into the web designers industry and get picked on for doing work. So what characteristics does someone need to get into your field? Creative, right we have to have good attention to detail got to make sure you are prone to learn new stuff all the time it's an ever-changing industry and you have passion for change with all this man, you'll be alright. From school to now what are the steps you took to get to where you are today? Remarkably what I've done I have self taught a lot of these things and you find that online these days you can do like self teach photoshop kind of work, self-teaching HTML, CSS and all you have to do is go online and Google up how to learn these things and from there just create your own projects do yourself a personal website, do some for your family and friends and from there you'll build yourself a portfolio and just go and go and go from there. There's no better way than look at what's out there check out the code behind them and it's copy paste and learn and modify for your website. And so if you could get to where you are today but I've done one thing differently what would have been? A lot of things but the main thing i would do differently is probably how I program stuff. I'm pretty stubborn in a lot of ways, stuff I learnt ages ago I kept using the same principles and they're not the most efficient, so there's certain things that you got adopt early and in hindsight I should have done in the past. So just finding out new technologies and just being ahead of the industry? That's right, that's right and it's back to what I really believe in its like, be able to learn, be teachable and just make sure you always jump on to new technologies early. Awesome, well thanks so much for talking to us today Bernard and I reckon we have a game of foosball. All right you ready to lose? You're on! And that's a loose by ten goas. For more information and to get involved hit up studentedge.com.au. We're going again, i'm winning one.

See more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jcojL6zsXk

We use the web more than ever these days, whether we're playing games, downloading apps or buying clothes. But somewhere, someone sat down and actually created that website. That's like Facebook, Amazon, even apps like Instagram and snapchat all started with one person sitting at a computer. Now you don't need to be a computer genius to know there are a lot of websites out there and people get paid to make them. Today we've come to see Bernie from Alyka to find out what it takes to be a web designer. How are you? Good mate. Look I want to find out what it's like to be a web designer. Alright, come on in. Alright Jesse, what do you want to know? Well mate, I want to learn a bit more about your job starting with what does a typical day look like? Typically what I do is run catch up with clients, workout what the upcoming requirements they want their website and the first point is doing a wireframe of how everything fits together so that i know exactly what elements they want on their website. From there running Photoshop and to the actually design and then yeah we go through the motions of making sure it's all been approved back and forth until they like it and from there we build the website. And so why did you want to be a web designer? Far out, like I started like 15 years ago man, i used to design websites for for gaming companies, that's my passionate and we wanted a place where all my mates can all come in and discuss about how we kicked each other's arses in games so that's how it started. I mean you got into it when you were 15 but if you're a bit older can you still get into the industry? Absolutely, this industry you don't have any expired date. One of the guys one of our colleagues is like 50 plus. He's the UX designer, user interface designer and user experience. That's the best part. With that age group you have better attention to detail, you've got the experience, it's ticking all the boxes right now, so i would say any age group it's not a problem. I mean is there much work out there for a web designer at the moment? Every business needs a website it's the main medium to get your message across to people these days. Definitely a lot of careers and opportunities out there for websites. These days we don't just do the website, we make sure it looks great for mobiles, with tablets it becomes more interactive you do more cool stuff so it was exciting. So Bernard what's the hardest part of the job? Probably the hardest part is like pleasing all clients. Some clients might want some designs a specific way even though they hired me to design it for them? And so what's the most rewarding part of the job like what brings you to work every day? The fact that like every client or every new design is different you know? You get different industries, you wouldn't get the same more boring big industry like the painting websites for example, you're gonna get an entertainment website based, you can get a lifestyle website based website you get a celebrity now and then as well it's pretty fun. And so it would what piece of advice would you give someone wanting to move into your field? I think the best way right, to move into the web design space, is to our create somehow the online portfolio, showcase a couple of your best work, not too much, a couple of your best work, showcase nice little animation tricks, demonstrate a bit of search engine optimization as well and a bit of forms, online marketing and that's the best way that that person can get into the web designers industry and get picked on for doing work. So what characteristics does someone need to get into your field? Creative, right we have to have good attention to detail got to make sure you are prone to learn new stuff all the time it's an ever-changing industry and you have passion for change with all this man, you'll be alright. From school to now what are the steps you took to get to where you are today? Remarkably what I've done I have selft taught a lot of these things and you find that online these days you can do like self teach photoshop kind of work, self-teaching HTML, CSS and all you have to do is go online and Google up how to learn these things and from there just create your own projects do yourself a personal website, do some for your family and friends and from there you'll build yourself a portfolio and just go and go and go from there. There's no better way than look at what's out there check out the code behind them and it's copy paste and learn and modify for your website. And so if you could get to where you are today but I've done one thing differently what would have been? A lot of things but the main thing i would do differently is probably how I program stuff. I'm pretty stubborn in a lot of ways, stuff I learnt ages ago I kept using the same principles and they're not the most efficient, so there's certain things that you got adopt early and in hindsight I should have done in the past. So just finding out new technologies and just being ahead of the industry? That's right, that's right and it's back to what I really believe in its like, be able to learn, be teachable and just make sure you always jump on to new technologies early. Awesome, well thanks so much for talking to us today Bernard and I reckon we have a game of football. All right you ready to lose? You're on! And that's a loose by ten goals. For more information and to get involved hit up studentedge.com.au. We're going again, i'm winning one.

See more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jcojL6zsXk

#web design #website design

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magicseogoldcoast · 8 years

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New Post has been published on Local Business Internet Marketing

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I Wanna Be a Web Designer · A Day In The Life Of A Web Designer

Jesse meets Bernard to find out what a day in the life of a Web Designer is all about. For more information about a career as a web designer, check out the web designer career page at Student Edge here: https://studentedge.com.au/career-life/find-a-career/web-designer Want to see more career videos from Student Edge? ↓ Click here: http://s-edg.com/careervideos

What does it take to become a Web Designer?

Web designers/developers design, create, produce and maintain websites using relevant software packages. They are required to meet clients and other people working on particular projects, such as designers and systems specialists.

Bernard explains what a web designer does, why he’s passionate about it and reveals the high demand in the industry for web designers.

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We use the web more than ever these days, whether we’re playing games, downloading apps or buying clothes. But somewhere, someone sat down and actually created that website. That’s like Facebook, Amazon, even apps like Instagram and Snapchat all started with one person sitting at a computer.

What does a typical day look like?

Typically I run catch ups with clients, workout what the upcoming requirements they want their website and the first point is doing a wireframe of how everything fits together so that I know exactly what elements they want on their website. From there running Photoshop and do the actual design and then we go through the motions of making sure it’s all been approved back and forth until they like it and from there we build the website.

And so why did you want to be a web designer?

I started like 15 years ago, I used to design websites for gaming companies, that’s my passion & we wanted a place where all my mates can all come in and discuss about how we kicked each other’s asses in games, that’s how it started.

You got into it when you were 15 but if you’re a bit older can you still get into the industry?

Absolutely, this industry you don’t have an expiry date. One of our colleagues is 50 plus. He’s the UX designer, user interface designer and user experience. That’s the best part. With that age group you have better attention to detail, you’ve got the experience, it’s ticking all the boxes right now, so I would say any age group it’s not a problem.

Is there much work out there for a web designer at the moment?

Every business needs a website it’s the main medium to get your message across to people these days. Definitely a lot of careers and opportunities out there for websites. These days we don’t just do the website, we make sure it looks great for mobiles, with tablets it becomes more interactive you do more cool stuff so it was exciting.

What’s the hardest part of the job?

Probably the hardest part is like pleasing all clients. Some clients might want some designs a specific way even though they hired me to design it for them.

What’s the most rewarding part of the job, what brings you to work every day?

The fact that like every client or every new design is different. You get different industries, you wouldn’t get the same boring big industry like a paint websites for example, you’re gonna get an entertainment website based, or a lifestyle website based website you get a celebrity now and then as well it’s fun.

What piece of advice would you give someone wanting to move into your field?

I think the best way to move into web design, is to create the online portfolio, showcase a couple of your best work, not too much, showcase nice little animation tricks, demonstrate a bit of search engine optimization as well and a bit of forms, online marketing and that’s the best way that that person can get into the web designers industry.

What characteristics does someone need to get into your field?

Creative, we have to have good attention to detail, got to make sure you’re prone to learn new stuff all the time it’s an ever-changing industry and you have passion for change with all this, you’ll be alright.

From school to now what are the steps you took to get to where you are today?

Remarkably I have self taught a lot of these things, you find that online these days you can self teach photoshop, self-teaching HTML, CSS and all you have to do is go online and Google how to learn these things, from there create your own projects do yourself a personal website, do some for your family & friends, from there you’ll build yourself a portfolio. There’s no better way than look at what’s out there check out the code behind them and copy paste and learn and modify for your website.

If you could get to where you are today but have done one thing differently what would have been?

A lot of things but the main thing I would do differently is how I program stuff. I’m pretty stubborn in a lot of ways, stuff I learnt ages ago I kept using the same principles and they’re not the most efficient, so there’s certain things that you got adopt early and in hindsight I should have done in the past.

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streamshare-blog · 8 years

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New Post has been published on Internet Marketing

New Post has been published on https://www.internetformarketinggold.com/2017/03/04/i-wanna-be-a-web-designer-%c2%b7-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-web-designer/

I Wanna Be a Web Designer · A Day In The Life Of A Web Designer

What does it take to become a Web Designer?

Bernard explains what a web designer does, why he’s passionate about it and reveals the high demand in the industry for web designers.

Transcript

What does a typical day look like?

And so why did you want to be a web designer?

You got into it when you were 15 but if you’re a bit older can you still get into the industry?

Is there much work out there for a web designer at the moment?

What’s the hardest part of the job?

Probably the hardest part is like pleasing all clients. Some clients might want some designs a specific way even though they hired me to design it for them.

What’s the most rewarding part of the job, what brings you to work every day?

What piece of advice would you give someone wanting to move into your field?

What characteristics does someone need to get into your field?

From school to now what are the steps you took to get to where you are today?

If you could get to where you are today but have done one thing differently what would have been?

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